NOT POKING THEIR NOSES INTO DISPUTE
"Tliis is going too far. We have 110 riglit to poke our uoses into a Government dispute. It will bc the start of a civil w'ar. If tlie Government got itsclf into a spot of botlier, it is its job to gct itsclf out of it." This was t'lie broadside launched by Mr. F. O. Malcolm, of the d airy soction ' of Manawatu provincial Eederated Farmers yesterday, when criticising a receut. statement by a Fcderaled Farmers spokesman that the farmers were prepared to unload tlie boats if callcl upon. .Mr. Ma lcoluin stated that the prestige of Ihe farming community had suffcrcd through the farmers' action ur maiuiing thc boats in similar circumslances several ycars ago. "Lct the merchants or someoue els" liave ii go," he said, questioning the suggestion that all Fcderaled Farmers were in support of the proposal.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 July 1948, Page 3
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